1. Introduction
1.1 This Privacy Policy sets out the privacy
policy of sported., part of the Sported
Foundation, a UK registered charity (number 1123313), company
number 6541137 (England) and whose registered address is at 20 St.
James Street, London, SW1A 1ES, ("sported."), who
controls this website. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act
1998 and related legislation ("the DPA"), the data controller is
The Sported Foundation.
1.2 sported. is committed to
protecting the privacy of its users and the purpose of this Privacy
Policy is to describe to you how sported. will use
personal information about you that is submitted to
sported.
1.3 By providing your personal information to
sported., you consent to the collection and use of
it and (any other information provided to
sported.) in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
If at any time you wish to change the uses of your personal
information to which you have consented, please contact us.
1.4 sported. may revise this
Privacy Policy at any time by posting an update on its website(s).
Please ensure that you check this website and any other
sported. website(s) you use from time to time to
review the then current Privacy Policy and to update your
preferences. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 14.01.13.
2. Collection of Personal Information
The types of personal information collected and stored by
sported. might include (but are not limited to)
your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, and fax
number.
2.1 sported. (or any of its
sub-contractors) may collect personal information about you in the
following ways:
(a) any data which you provide when you complete
and submit an application to register your organisation as a member
of sported.; request email alerts or other
communications from sported.; make an application
for funding on behalf of your organisation; or receive services or
support from sported.;
(b) any other data which you provide to
sported. when you enquire about our activities,
email, telephone or write to us or otherwise provide us with
personal information;
(c) sported. may also receive
information about you from third parties, for example from another
representative of your organisation.
3. Storage and retention of your
information
3.1 sported. will keep your
information on a secure server. The technology that
sported. uses and the security policies which
sported. has implemented are intended to safeguard
your information from unauthorised access and improper use.
3.2 sported. will keep your
information (to the extent permitted by the DPA) to enable
sported. to use it for the purposes described in
this Privacy Policy.
4. Use of Your Information
4.1 sported. may use your
personal information for the following purposes (in addition to any
other purpose for which you give your consent, or which is
permitted under the DPA):
(a) administering your organisation's membership
of sported. and otherwise in connection with any
service, support or funding application for which your information
is provided;
(b) responding to any enquiry you make;
(c) keeping you updated (including by post,
email or telephone) about sported.'s activities
and services, and those of other selected third parties we think
you might be interested in; and
(d) for generating aggregated statistics about
users, traffic patterns etc of the sported.
website(s) and other services and developing
sported.'s marketing plans.
4.2 sported. may also disclose
your information (subject in each case to the requirements of the
DPA) as follows:
(a) to any service providers, sub-contractors
and agents appointed by sported. to provide any
function or service on its behalf and in accordance with its
instructions;
(b) to third parties selected by
sported. as part of aggregated and anonymised
statistics about users, traffic patterns etc of the
sported. website(s);
(c) to such individuals and/or bodies as
necessary to ensure sported.'s compliance with any
applicable law, regulation, legal proceeding or governmental
request.
(d) in the event that sported.
or The Sported Foundation is acquired by or merges with another
company, to that company in order to enable your relationship with
sported. to continue after the transfer/merger;
and/or on a confidential basis to any company with whom
sported. or The Sported Foundation is negotiating
such a sale/merger as part of the verification exercise carried out
by them.
5. Cookies
5.1 To personalise your browsing experience,
sported. uses "cookie" information technology.
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are issued by your
computer when you enter a website. Cookies are stored by your
browser on your computer's hard drive and enable the website to
identify your computer and to store information about your use and
navigation of the website.
5.2 Cookies enable sported.
to store information about your preferences and therefore customise
the website according to your individual interests. They are also
used to monitor which parts of the website are the most popular to
its visitors.
5.3 You are not obliged to accept cookies and
you can amend your browser's settings to prevent cookies being
accepted by it. Please be aware that if you do disable cookies
however, certain services on the sported. websites
may not be available to you and your use and enjoyment of them may
be impaired. Read more about our Cookie
Policy.
6. Third Party Websites
6.1 Please be aware that
sported. does not control and is not responsible
for websites that are referred to or linked from its own websites
and that use of your personal information on these website is not
subject to this Privacy Policy.
7. Registration
7.1 To access certain parts of the
sported. websites, sported. may
require you to register and provide certain information about
yourself.
7.2 You are reminded that in addition to the
provisions of this Privacy Policy, where you register you also
agree to:
(a) provide true, accurate, current and complete
information about yourself as prompted by the relevant registration
form (such information being the "Registration Data"); and
(b) maintain and promptly update the
Registration Data to keep it fully up to date.